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...I take advice from people.

Not only have I added a comment system back onto my story sites, but I've decided to split up the ad boxes. Ever since I unified the layouts on my story sites, I've also shared the ad boxes among them. It seemed like a good way to give advertisers a little extra value for their money.

But now that the "little" stories are getting updated more often, it seems like they might be worth their own slots, and while I love the people who read every single thing I put out, the individual stories are different enough that they may attract different audiences as they come into their own.

Also, the stories have varying levels of "safe-for-workness". As was pointed out to me, having a graphic gay fantasy comic at the top of 3 Seas might turn some people off from it. Actually, I'm not sure I want that particular ad even running on Tales of MU. As un-work-safe as TOMU can be, text is fairly innocuous to a casual glance, whereas graphics are... graphic. I'll be thinking about it. It's not the comic being advertised that's the problem... it's the fact that the ad includes things that require a censor dot.

Anyway, if you're one of the people reading this blog who has a crafty site or a comic site or a serial site, you can get yourself some deep discount advertising by being one of the first people to place ads on Star Harbor Nights or The 3 Seas. Note that 3 Seas in particular is getting a lot of extra hits as I'm advertising it in a few places. I've also removed the Google ads from those sites... I keep flirting with Google, but I'm never happy with the results and I'd rather that my Project Wonderful advertisers get more prominent placement.

I'll be doing the same to Void Dogs and Tribe: Fantasy In Miniature tomorrow or Saturday.
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As a corollary to my post last night about boosting readership, I've started advertising again after having been mostly absent for a few months.

My experience is that you see the best results if your ads are up in the same place for a while - not everybody will click on them the first time they see them, but if they're a regular presence curiosity might strike or you might get someone who just read their favorite webcomic's latest update and then they go, "Okay, what do I read next?" But if you're too much of a presence, you see diminishing returns as your ads fade into the background and a lot of your potential clickers from the targeted audience have already clicked.

I'm advertising Tales of MU, because, of course, that's the big story with the most readers, but I'm also running a small ad for The 3 Seas in a few places. The story's taking off, Iskondra and Tauri are turning into breakout characters among the people who are reading it... the small and initially erratic updates might have made it hard for people to get into, but now that it's flowing steadily I think it's time it came into its own.

In a happy chain of coincidence, just after I threw some MU ads up on Khaos Komix (one of my favorite webcomics), [livejournal.com profile] popelizbet told me that the author had just posted a rec for another writer, and scrolling down through the comments there was somebody throwing in a plug for me. Whee!

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